My Easter Weekend

Previously on MadSnapper you read about my quest for a comfy chair.

Hubby loves the new chair. For me it still hurts.

My mother, her sister and now myself, suffer from Apple on toothpick body style. We also have no bottom to speak of, and a tail bone that is extended to far... when sitting on hard surfaces aforesaid tail bone HURTS. Due to lower spine and left hip Arthritis, I have 3 pressure points that hurt when sitting.

Enter The Dunce..see above lower right corner... I purchased for 10 dollars a FIVE ZONE mattress pad guaranteed to help with pressure points.

 Hubby cut the pad in 3 pieces.... Above dunce CHEWED the middle out of one while we were trying out the other one on above chair.

 (Dunce better known as Baby Girl, said it was Daddy's fault because he laid it on the sofa, which is her kingdom and she thought it was hers)

To protect Said Five Zone Pad from above Dunce, I was forced to drop it inside a mu-mu that is never worn.... (ugly as it is, it works great on sofa, rocker and desk chairs.)

Is MadSnapper creative or what?  Aren't you glad I don't wear this pad cover?

Do you think Baby or Bob is guilty?

Once Upon a Time there was a CHAIR

Once upon a cold spell in  Florida  winds gusting to 35 mph forced MadSnapper's hubby to stay home from the park. Three days in a row!

Alas! he was getting on MadSnapper's LAST NERVE with nothing to do but watch TV because he talked to me while I was BLOGGING!

MadSnapper New Desk Chair 

Aha! MadSnapper thought, I need a new desk chair and I  have been putting off the long trip to  Bucko's Used Office furniture store, I can take Bob along for the ride to keep me company.

Arriving at  Bucko's without the use of GPS SEVEN miles from home.
Alas! Alack! all the Bucko's chairs were 250.00 dollars and UP, way UP....new owner, no used chairs.

9 stores, and I felt like I had arrived in  Goldilocks and the three bears story book. I sat in at least 30 chairs... I would plop down and stand up NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! add 27 more NOPES.

Store 9, I sat in 3 chairs and the 3rd one shouted, this chair is Just Right..OOPS! forgot I am not Goldilocks.

The two of us looking in the window at a thrift store, Bob said I did not know this was here... OF COURSE not,  he had never been in a thrift store. now he has

2 mornings, 2 hours each, 3 used furniture stores and 6 thrift stores, total of 9 stores. [totaled for those of you with no calculator]

Benefits received from shopping trip.

1. we got lots of exercise getting in and out of the car 18 times
2. we spent QUALITY time together, who needs Date Night
3. chair for cost of 20.00 plus 4.00 worth of gas for the 20 miles we traveled.
4. Last but not leasst, we spent our money in a thrift store that is non profit and all funds go to
fund the safehouse for Domestic Violence.

Choose Your Chair/Bench

Overlooks Manatee River

Which one of these seats would you choose to sit, rest and chat with me....

NOTE: all photos taken by MadSnapper but NOT my yard... taken from Bench folder in archives

Oak Forrest in park with squirrels

Bench on canal

Bayside Dock, you can sit the chair the normal way

Coquina Beach view

 Above is my preference.

Front yard view

 What do you do when your chair breaks?   Call a chairman, silly

Back yard view

Coquina Beach view

From the Chair

 From My Chair-Out of the Camera-no edits. Can you guess what it is  before you scroll down?

 Clue: once it was Green

 It is the top part of a dead frond from a palm in our back yard, the frond attaches to the trunk with this.

Look three clicks to the left.. someone get the shovel

Just kidding!!! its only Baby Girl sleeping

The birth of From The Chair!

Remember the chair in The Birth of a new MadSnapper
that the Better Shot Shooting MadSnapper dragged behind the bushes??? Behold! The  Birth of  "From the Chair"  a new meme for me.
The plan is to drag a chair any where and sit down with my long lens on my camera and Snap! but NOT Madly More, but Madly Better from FIDDLING with

The Dreaded Dial (the part that says TV, AV, M (shuddering just typing the letters) seems if a person conquers The Dreaded Dial the photos look a lot better.

 See the tiny little 4 inch high WEED above? if you sit in a chair and prop the camera on your knees or arms to chair, and fiddle with the DD and ZOOM in and out.... below is what you get.
NOTE... if you decide to join me in From The Chair, make sure you don't lean on the arms if you use an armless chair

 also if you decide to try this, the chair can be any where at all, yard, beach, middle of the street (just kidding) OR you can sit on a stump or anything at all. the thing is to SIT and STARE and SNAP!

 all weeds shot from 20 feet away.... if you don't have a zoom then shoot close to your chair.. you have toes don't you?

 OK, so I did take MORE! but you KNEW I would!   Join me in the meme for me if you want, there is no link, no special day, no rules at all. just sit and shoot and post

Chair Any One?

Out of the camera landscape

 I told you to carry your camera in your pocket at all times.... I do, I did and here is the chair in a ladies restroom

Out of the Camera Portrait

Sumi filter

Render lighting filter

Happy Saturday Everyone from the Madly Snapping MadSnapper

Pull Up A Chair....Rest A While

 Pull Up a Chair, Rest a while, and enjoy the chairs and books found on our local beach

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.  ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949


There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.  ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss 

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.  ~Spanish Proverb

Mark 6:32 
31And He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat.) 32They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.

Chair Chat

On the road to the Pier on Anna Maria Island, most of the homes had colorful chairs at the ready, waiting for someone to sit and chat.

“I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society”. Henry Daivd Thoreau

The Chair Joke

An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics. The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: "Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist." 

 

Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a minute

Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all. His answer consisted of two words:

"What chair"

“Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.” Fred Lebowitz

What do you do when your chair breaks???

Call a Chairman